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Understanding the Israeli Mid-Cap Market
Over extended market cycles, Israel’s mid-cap equities have often delivered strong growth, driven by their greater sensitivity to domestic economic trends. Despite this, mid-cap companies remain underrepresented in many portfolios. The S&P Israel 70 MidCap Index addresses this gap, systematically measuring the mid-cap segment and offering a diversified look at established Israeli mid-cap companies through…
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The S&P Israel 30 LargeCap Index: Uncovering the Performance of Israel’s Large Caps
Opening the Door to Untapped Opportunities As investors broaden their opportunity set beyond the most widely held markets, Israel’s large-cap equities have increasingly drawn attention. The S&P Israel 30 LargeCap Index offers a focused way to access this segment of the market, capturing many of the country’s most liquid companies across sectors such as Information…
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Shifting Equity Sensitivities with S&P 500 Sectors
Broad-based benchmarks such as the S&P 500® and S&P SmallCap 600® demonstrated an upbeat response to the U.S. presidential election, rising 6% and 11%, respectively, in November 2024. The spread in U.S. size segments was more muted relative to S&P 500 sectors. Exhibit 1 presents the November 2024 cumulative total return of the S&P 500…
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Beyond Diversification: U.S. Equity and Sector Relevance in Mexico
Many investors tend to overweight domestic equities, a phenomenon known as home bias. Mexican investors may be inadvertently neglecting the breadth of global equity markets by focusing primarily on local options. The significant representation of the U.S. equity market means that some investors risk overlooking a significant portion of the global equity market and the…
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Frequent Flyers
Planes are interesting places, airborne aluminum tubes stuffed with strangers from all walks of life, including seatmates prodding with the proverbial ice-breaker, “So, what do you do?” Overhearing many such conversations, I’ve found complicated job descriptions elicit blank stares and subsequently lead to higher-level answers such as “Well, I’m in tech,” or “I work in…
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Using the News to Select a More Stable Path to the S&P 500
Meet the S&P 500 RavenPack AI Index, a multi-asset index that applies a news analytics algorithm powered by RavenPack to select S&P 500 sectors with the strongest news sentiment for use in its sector rotation process. The index combines U.S. equities and fixed income, complemented by a daily risk control mechanism that seeks to maintain…
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